Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-05-25

was for shipment to cotton mills in the
more central part Of that Republic.
- Since the war five women have been
hanged legally in North Carolina, and two
have been lynched. Recently the DEATH
sentence OF 8 woman in Franklin county
was commuted to life imprisonment. A
good deal of interest is manifested In the
approaching execution of Mary Crossan,
a white woman, who is to be hanged early
next month for the murder Of her child,
unless there is a communication.
The report that a number of Mexican
officers had been shot by order of the Mex
lean government for invading American
soil and forcibly OBTAINING an. American
citizen, was premature. They were SEN
fenced to death, but the United States gov
eminent is interceding in their behalf.
AS the American government was the
party injured there exists no doubt that It's
in%terposition for clemency will a the
lives of the prisoners.
of the recent destructive forest fires in
Michigan, dispatches from the upper re-
ninsula say: Reports from % different To-
calities indicate that the fires which nave
been ravaging the country are diminishing
partly from q lack of fuel. In some locall-
ties high winds prevail, and new fires have
occurred. Detroit Journal specials sum-
marize the situation by the statement that
the Peninsula is three million dollars
poorer on account of the winds OF TWO
weeks ago and these fires.
An old cavalryman says that q horse
will never step on a man Intentionally. IL
is astanding order with cavalry that should
q man become dismounted he must lie
down and be perfectly still. If he does so
the entire company will pass over him and
he not be injured. A horse notices where
he is going and is on the lookout for a firm
foundation to put his foot on. 1t is an IN
stinct with him, therefore, to step over a
PROSTATE man. The injuries caused by a
runaway horse are nearly always inflicted
by the animal knocking people down ana
not by his stepping on them.
Michael Hammond, a conductor on the
Delaware and Hudson Railroad, was killed
Saturday afternoon. AS his train was
moving out from the depot at Parsons, Pa,
he noticed q woman and q little boy on the
track, directly in front of the engine, VINO
had become bewildered. Hammond
jumped from the car, ran along the track,
and finally pushed them both down he
embankment. In doing so he staggered
back and fell under the cars and was in
stantly killed. His body was horribly
mangled.
An Augusta, Ga, dispatch of Friday
says: A man named Hoover, Who mas
been going around the country, urging the
negroes to band together to demand higher
wages, and telling them to apply the torch
if an increase of wages were refused, after
a harangue at Warrent N last night, was
dangerously shot by a band, it is alleged,
of armed men. Its believed that Hoover
had been swindling the negroes and was
the victim Of their wrath. There is no
clew to the perpetrators. Hoover may
live, but it is doubtful. He claims to be a
knight of Labor.
- The exploring expedition sent to in
vestigate the. late Mexican ~earthquakes
confirms the accounts of their destructive
effects, and though it has not yet pene-
trated the mountain region, revives the
stories of volcanic disturbance by stating
that smoke, which, from the nature of the
country, can hardly be indicative of any
ting else than volcanic eruption, continues
to pour from several mountain peaks. II
indeed, a range of active volcanoes has
broken out in the Sierra Madre range, the
event is of great scientific importance, and
the further reports of the expedition will
be looked for with increasing interest.
= Says the Philadelphia Telegram There
seems to be some need for the recognition
of the rights of the colored brother and
sister in Pennsylvania as well rs in South
Carolina. Yesterday certain colored citi-
zens of both sexes, who went up to Beth
lehem from Reading to attend a sociable,
were refused quarters at the hotels. And
yet this is a through-and-through Repuoll-
can State, and its professional politicians
have for a quarter of a century prospered
and waxed fat by demanding that South
Carolina shall treat the colored person as a
man and a brother, and not as first cousin
of the baboon.
Ex-Governor James M. Smith, who
was recently appointed Judge of the Chat
tahoochee (Ga.) Court to till q vacancy,
s~ignalized his elevation to the Bench by
Muscogee county, in which he was par
ticularly emphatic in %denouncing va
grancy. He said ''vagrancy was the
great evil of this country, and if half of
the people who live upon others would go
to work, there would be great prosperi-
ty. There are many people who lie
down in green pastures and walk beside
still waters who strike a lick of
work and have no visible means of sup
port. Farmers cannot raise hogs because
they will be stolen. Their chicken-h0uses
and barns are invaded; their cornfields
and cotton-houses are entered by that
class Of people who work, but live
upon the labor OF Others"
The anniversary of the Mecklenburg
Declaration of Independence was celebra-
ted at Charlotte, N. c., on May 20. Pres
ident Cleveland was invited to be present
at the celebration. He could not attend,
but he sent the committee on invitations
a letter, in which he said: "Among the
many significant incidents which preced-
ed the formation of the present Govern
ment, few were more important or con-
taken by the people of Mecklenburg coun-
ty. In the midst of uncertainties and
wavering opinions their courage and con-
victions led them to take a step which at
tests their strength of character and sim
certify of purpose. The anniversary of
this declaration of independence will, [
trust, be always celebrated"
-"Oh, Lord, I've lost everything! I
amt got a dollar in the world!" Such
was the wall on the street of Riedville,
N. c., in the month of March from Ed
mond Hodnett, a colored man. The house
he rented and used as a store had been
burned. A few days ago he Was arrested
for burning the store and a dray load of
the goods were found in his dwelling
house. On the following morning he turn
ed States evidence, and charged George
Windsor, owner of the building, with
planning and proposing the burning.
They paid Bob Penn, a negro shoemaker,
s25 each to do the work. Hodnett's goods
were insured for 5000, but he compromised
with the company for one-ifth. Windsor
received full insurance, $500, on the build
ing. The three colored men are in the Ried-
vile Jail and closely guarded. Hodnett
and Windsor have stood we'll as leaders of
fhoir rano There WAS much excitement